627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.

Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never arguing over the timing of an egg, never telling the same story twice....

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

The fish are naked. The fish are always awake. They are the color of old spoons and caramels.

There is an animal inside me, clutching fast to my heart, a huge crab.

The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me.

Take a woman talking, purging herself with rhymes, drumming words out like a typewriter, planting words in you like grass seed. You'll move off.

I've grown tired of love You are the trouble with me I watch you walk right by